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Commuting in Rawlins County, Kansas: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Rawlins County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rawlins County spend about 17 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 70 hours, about 2.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 51% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 8.8 minutes.

Rawlins County holds about 0.1% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Rawlins County would save about 28 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $871 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area One-Way Commute Daily Round-Trip Yearly Time Spent Estimated Yearly Cost Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Rawlins County 8.4 min 16.9 min 70 hrs/yr $2,177 138
Kansas 17.2 min 34.4 min 143 hrs/yr $4,448 662
United States 22.4 min 44.8 min 187 hrs/yr $5,790 1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Commute Time Map: Kansas Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Kansas
  1. Wichita County (7.0 min)
  2. Scott County (7.1 min)
  3. Greeley County (7.2 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Kansas
  1. Linn County (31.3 min)
  2. Miami County (30.8 min)
  3. Jefferson County (30.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Rawlins County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 8.4 minutes to get to work in Rawlins County. That's 62% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 88% of counties in Kansas

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rawlins County

  • Car: 82.1%
  • Worked at Home: 13.4%
  • Walked: 2.7%
  • Motorcycle: 0.8% unusually high
  • Bicycle: 0.8%
  • Public Transportation: 0.2%
  • Other: 0.2%
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Rawlins County: 6.1 times more than the Kansas average (0.8% vs 0.1%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Rawlins County, versus 0.2% in Kansas.

Commute Mode Trends in Rawlins County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rawlins County get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show commute mode data by year
Year Car Worked at Home Walked Motorcycle Bicycle Public Transportation Other Taxi
2009 70.8% 14.3% 11.8% 0.0% 2.3% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 68.8% 18.7% 7.9% 0.4% 1.3% 0.2% 2.8% 0.0%
2011 71.5% 19.0% 6.9% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 1.9% 0.0%
2012 76.0% 16.7% 5.3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 1.4% 0.0%
2013 75.1% 18.0% 4.7% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0% 1.6% 0.0%
2014 76.2% 16.5% 5.1% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 1.7% 0.0%
2015 80.4% 12.2% 7.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0%
2016 78.5% 13.4% 6.5% 0.2% 0.4% 0.0% 1.0% 0.0%
2017 81.1% 11.3% 6.3% 0.1% 0.3% 0.3% 0.6% 0.0%
2018 83.3% 9.8% 5.1% 0.1% 0.2% 1.1% 0.4% 0.0%
2019 80.1% 13.3% 4.5% 0.3% 0.2% 0.7% 0.8% 0.0%
2020 83.8% 12.4% 2.1% 0.3% 0.2% 0.6% 0.7% 0.0%
2021 83.4% 13.3% 1.9% 0.2% 0.2% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0%
2022 82.8% 13.4% 1.5% 1.0% 0.2% 0.9% 0.2% 0.0%
2023 82.1% 12.9% 1.7% 1.6% 0.8% 0.2% 0.7% 0.0%
2024 82.1% 13.4% 2.7% 0.8% 0.8% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2020 at 83.8% and lowest in 2010 at 68.8%. Overall it rose from 70.8% in 2009 to 82.1% in 2024, up 11.3 percentage points.

Riding a motorcycle gained the most ground in Rawlins County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 0.8% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 11.8% to 2.7% of workers (down 9.1 percentage points).

Riding a motorcycle overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 19.0% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 13.4%.

Commute Start Times in Rawlins County

  • Rush-Hour RegularsThe 2nd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Kansas's 105 counties: 73.9% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.
  • Night OwlThe 3rd-latest start among Kansas's 105 counties: half of commuters are still at home at 7:48 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rawlins County?

The bars show when commuters in Rawlins County leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Kansas for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM
0.7%
5:00-5:29 AM
0.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
1.4%
6:00-6:29 AM
5.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM
31.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
19.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
7.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
2.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.7%

Rawlins County Kansas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Rawlins County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 31.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 2.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 73.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (10.8%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Rawlins County, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Rawlins County Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Rawlins County next to Kansas and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Rawlins County Kansas United States
2009 7:55 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:59 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:58 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:54 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:51 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:49 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:52 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:53 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:51 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:49 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:47 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:42 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:45 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:46 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:47 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:48 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rawlins County were on the road by 7:48 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:55 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Rawlins County now leave 10 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Rawlins County's commute time compare?

Metric Rawlins County Kansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 8.4 min 17.2 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 13.4% 11.8% 15.0%
Walked 2.7% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.2% 0.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in Rawlins County is 8.4 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 2.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Rawlins County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Rawlins County, KS is typical in size for this group, 2,516 residents against a local median of 2,726, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Rawlins County, KS's work from home, at 13.4%, runs 39% above the 9.6% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 13.8% on work from home, so Rawlins County, KS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Rawlins County, KS has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Rawlins County, KS 2,516 8.4 min #3/6 13.4% #3/6 7:48 AM #6/6
Hitchcock County, NE 2,569 16.4 min 7.6% 7:28 AM
Thomas County, KS 7,885 8.3 min 9.6% 7:45 AM
Decatur County, KS 2,726 10.8 min 15.3% 7:40 AM
Cheyenne County, KS 2,628 7.3 min 18.5% 7:46 AM
Red Willow County, NE 10,557 8.5 min 4.7% 7:45 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Rawlins County, Kansas.

Is commuting expensive in Rawlins County, Kansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 70 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,177 at a typical national wage. That's 51% less than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Rawlins County, Kansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Rawlins County, Kansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How do commute times compare across counties in Kansas?

Among counties in Kansas, the shortest average commutes are in Wichita County (7.0 min), Scott County (7.1 min), Greeley County (7.2 min). The longest are in Linn County (31.3 min), Miami County (30.8 min), Jefferson County (30.3 min).